A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The first few minutes of the movie were entertaining and I was really hoping for an enjoyable movie.Sadly, by the end my wife and I were stunned at just how bad this was. We had to scrape our jaws up off the floor to ponder just how this movie was ever funded. The plot goes from pleasantly goofy to awful and then ... it was just insulting. Screenwriting classes should use this script to catalog all the awful mistakes to avoid.

For the first half of this film I was a bit puzzled/sceptical. The plot is so surreal. But as you get into it you realise how much it is about mental health and emotional abuse, you get past the fantastical and unreal plot and enjoy it for what it is.., whatever that may be! Brilliant!

The term 'car-crash' normally means something that's really bad and yet you can't bring yourself to look away. I think it would be a little unfair to refer to 'Colossal' as a 'car-crash' of a film, because it's not bad at all, in fact, it's rather touching and uplifting, but I certainly couldn't stop myself from watching, even though I have to confess I'm not entirely sure of the point.Thinking about it, I do wonder how commercially successful it was because I can't really think of the target audience it was supposed to be aimed at. If you've seen any of the marketing material surrounding it, you may well have spotted the prominent monsters crashing through major world cities. In the light of the 'Pacific Rim' movies you may well be expecting an action blockbuster, but you would be well off the mark with that one. Also, prominently featured in the film's posters is its star Anne Hathaway smiling and looking a little bit kookie. This almost makes the film come across as a happy-go-lucky comedy, maybe with a romantic element contained within? Again, well wrong.In fact, it's almost hard to explain about the film's plot without giving too much away. Anne Hathaway plays a struggling alcoholic who gets caught up in a much larger matter (pun intended) regarding giant monsters crashing through a city on the other side of the world. How are these two situations connected? Well, you'll have to watch the film to find out.I will say that the film doesn't give a clear and cut explanation to everything it's presented the audience with, but it gives you enough to allow you to fill in the blanks yourself with (film) logic. What you get is actually a drama about an alcoholic struggling with her demons and those around her that wish to either help or hinder her. Yes, there are also giant monsters in there, too.As long as you expect drama first and sci-fi second, you should enjoy it. There's not much here in the way of humour or action, so certainly don't hold out for anything that remotely resembles 'Pacific Rim.' As I said, I don't know who the target audience for this is, only that I enjoyed it and found that I was definitely rooting for Anne Hathaway's character and found her a flawed, yet endearing hero.

Seems every down on their luck person in the movies has a friend who can employ them!I wonder if that is Anne's personal laptop?I know something you could do... but that'd be morbid?Isn't the translator going to know?Drinking on the job? Not a good look for a bartender... Anyone actually, baring you're a sommelier.A number of things going on here. Not sure which are related to one another.What is up with his buddy?That was unexpected.Wow! This is dark now.Even creepier when you add pool leaves.Those people in the background just eating as per usual :)Points for unusual premise, but I forced myself to watch this after awhile, and I was disappointed, but boy does it get interesting.